Wide Area Bonjour:
Service discovery in WLAN is currently the hot topic in industry. Currently, the Bonjour protocol can discover service only if they are local (within the sub-net).The local services are discovered using mDNS. How ever there is a need to discover services across the sub-nets. Some interesting read on these topics are:
Service discovery in WLAN is currently the hot topic in industry. Currently, the Bonjour protocol can discover service only if they are local (within the sub-net).The local services are discovered using mDNS. How ever there is a need to discover services across the sub-nets. Some interesting read on these topics are:
- http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-cheshire-dnsext-nbp-10.txt
- DNS-SD: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd-11
- mDNS: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-15
- DNS service types:http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xml
Also read the petition filed :- http://www.cultofmac.com/182919/education-it-pros-petition-apple-to-fix-bonjour/
